Logic Pro 12’s new harmonic intelligence and Chord ID: hands-on

Logic Pro 12 is available now. Both iPad and Mac versions are included as part of Apple’s new $13/mo Creators Studio, but this is also still a free upgrade for all existing Logic owners, and one-off purchases remain available. So let’s talk about Logic’s banner feature, Chord ID, and the Synth Players and other features that can take advantage of it. They’re deeper than you might think.

littlescale’s Simple Audio Editor: a free, no-install audio editor in your browser

Prolific as always, Sebastian Tomczak (aka littlescale) just dropped this gem. What do you need nine times out of ten from an audio editor? Visualize, check levels, trim, gain, fade, reverse, normalize, export — now you can do all of that with one handy index.html file and any browser, free.

Peter Kirn - January 18, 2026

ENDOGEN: a deep experimental exploratorium of lowercase synthesis

Enter an organic sound machine that will take you to an imagined sound world somewhere between a temple garden and a half-awake dream. ENDOGEN is a dazzling tool, built in Max and SuperCollider, that explores notions of lowercase synthesis. There’s a lot to cover as far as what it can do — but you should also feel empowered to play and get lost.

Peter Kirn - January 15, 2026

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